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Nimrod. Brilliant.
With an interesting grid that I don’t remember seeing much before which helps the solver by providing a goodly number of first letters.
This solve went very well kicking off with 1 Across and two of the three other 15 letter lights.
There are a few where I can’t understand the wordplay or some reference so help gratefully received, espec. 10A, 25A, 4D and 22D (and others)

Across

1

PULL THE OTHER ONE (THE NORTH POLE E U L)* Unsure about validity of abbreviating Lecturer to L on its own

9

IDLE DD Ref. Eric of that ilk

10

PIANISSIMO Don’t understand. P[resident] ? Is OMISSINAI or OMISNAI or similar a “place of High Command” - Good job I learnt the piano as a nipper.P (OM IS SINAI) reversed

TOLD DD-ish thing: Told as in “all told” for counting, and as in relating a story though for that the clue would need related rather than relating so I think the “out?” is modifying the tense.(?)

13

TOM DICK AND HARRY Standard shorthand names for a set of ordinary blokes. “Tom Dick” is cockney slang for sick and worry=harry

16

LOW-SPIRITEDNESS I needed virtually all the crossing letters for this one though I could see it was LOW-something from the start. I was clearly trying to over-think the clue which looks more like a straight def. than a CD to me, I presume it’s a play on words referring to depression in the meteorological sense. (There’s likely more to it.)
There certainly is:It is an anagram of WILTS and DEPRESSIONThis goes to show how a nice &Lit anagram can be really hard if you don’t spot the anagram

23

ZOLA [GORGON]ZOLA I presume he’s a football manager – someone will be along in a minute to tell me of which team.West Ham United

24

FLASH FLOOD FLASH Light and Flood Lights thus twice as light, and the result of a heavy (cats and dogs) downpour

25

DOLLAR SIGN I don’t get this def. “It’s over 4″ (GALLONS DIR[ectors])*Doh! The $ character is above the 4 on a standard typewriter keyboard

26

TIME “Thyme”

27

FOOT-POUND-SECOND This has come up before (I won’t say recently ’cause I’ll probably find I’m recalling something from over a year ago). Good old imperial unit from Foot=pay, some money=pound, back=second as in supporting.

Down

2

UNDERGO (URGED ON)* Nice new anagrind, Hatters, I didn’t doubt that it indicates an anagram but I note the “?” in case the purists moan about a noun used in this way.

3

LIE-ABED This gave me momentry trouble with 9A as I put in LAY-ABED first off ABE in LIED More slang, pit is bed

4

HEPATIC Def.is livery but wordplay escapes me -probably (H[orse] EAT PIC)* with EAT from hungry but where’s the anagrind?Hungry horse in photo at livery(7)H[orse]E,P(AT)IC Not an anagram. The Horse is hungry because it’s empty!

5

ORAL EXAMINATION Alex Comfort of 1970s “Joy of Sex” fame makes an appearance. ALEX AM IN inside ORATION (actually I’m not sure how the IN gets in there)Aha – it was Idi AMIN who dictated
I got stuck on using the “in” in the clue in the answer and thought Dr Comfort was saying “I am Alex” or something.

6

HOISTED (SITE)* inside HOD

7

ROSETTA (TOASTER)* Worth going to the British Museum to see the Rosetta Stone alone.

8

NIMBLER (BERLIN M)*

14

MEW MEW[s] My kids have been found watching a cartoon called Mew-Mew Power – very strange stuff.

15

RUE DD

17

OLOROSO [d]OLOROSO That sherry that is a crossword favourite.

18

SHALLOT ALL in SHOT

19

INFERNO INFER,NO I noted this as my favourite in the crossword as it made me laugh out loud:
Hell? Guess not (7)

20

ECHINUS CHIN feature in E[ast] US. I had to google this to find out what kind of sea creature it was – a spiny sea urchin (any relation to Echidna, spiny anteater? No).

21

NILOTIC NIL love, OTIC “of a listener” Describes people from the Nile River regions – another word that popped up not that long ago in the Guardian Xword, but I had to strain my brain to spot it

22

SHOWMAN Another I need help with. Is it SHOW[BOAT] + [BOAT]MAN with BOAT twice missing?Apparently so

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4D Ah! The Horse is hungry/empty thus we get the HE from H[ors]E. Thanks CG.

25A “$” Dollar-sign above 4 That’s a “Doh!”

Uncle Y: “Alamak” is what you said in your first comment in the other thread – I guessed it was roughly equivalent to, and more suitable than my actual reaction which, as Blackadder would say rhymed with “O clucking bell”.

I guess I must also be one of those purists you mention because I wasn’t keen on Hatters as an anagram indicator. Not because it’s a noun but because I just don’t understand how it works. Why is it capitalised? Is it supposed to be referring to the Mad Hatter or hatters in general? In which case is the anagrind actually “like Hatters”? Are we missing an apostrophe (i.e. should it be “like Hatter’s”)? The word order seems a bit wrong to me as I would have expected it to anagram the preceding words….

‘Mad as a hatter’ comes from the use of mercury in one of the processes of hat-making. Hatters were thus exposed to mercury vapour which is toxic; it’s effects brought on madness.
I don’t have any problem with ‘hatter/s’ as an anagram indicator, but I found this a tough puzzle, with too many answers got from checking letters but which I didn’t understand. Finally defeated by foot-pound-second. Now if the clue had been ‘System (not international)…’ – but that might have been too easy!